HSL681
| HSL681 | |
|---|---|
| print Culture and History | |
| Credits | 3 |
| Structure | 3-0-0 |
| Pre-requisites | |
| Overlaps | |
HSL681 : print Culture and History
[edit]This course explores print history and culture by studying the role of technologies and their modes of social, cultural, and textual existence. It problematizes how print constitutes human experience in the ‘modern' epoch. It also enables students to investigate how cognition, sense perception, bodily and emotional engagement have been configured in history through print. The course will introduce print as a modern phenomenon and foreground ideas of culture, power, pleasure, resistance, and community to study print history. Topics to be covered include introduction to the history of print, method and theory, print as culture, print as power, print as pleasure, print communities.